Andrew Piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University.
Compelling.... Andrew Piper shows the apparent internet revolution as being a continuum of book culture. (Financial Times) This series of enlightening meditations on the experience and history of reading reveals what we are poised to gain and to lose with the advent of e-readers and related digital media.... Andrew Piper does a fine job of uncovering the metaphors on which the rationality and logic of reading rest.... A fascinating glance at the page as it was, as it is, and as it might yet be. (Publishers Weekly)